1917 – San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1957 – Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1958 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 – Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1972 – President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1976 – 18th Daytona 500: David Pearson makes contact with Richard Petty just yards from finish line into a wall and to infield; Petty stalls whilst Pearson re-starts to win
1980 – Soviet cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina claims her 3rd of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 5k event at Lake Placid; also wins 10k and relay gold (Innsbruck 1976) and relay (Albertville 1992)
1984 – 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1996 – American boxer Tommy Morrison announces he has contracted HIV
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th February 2020
1872 – 1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
1900 – Date of events in Australian movie “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
1921 – Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing “Ulysses,” in New York
1936 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 – Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of film “Gone With the Wind”
1940 – British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1943 – German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
1945 – World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
1965 – 7th Daytona 500: Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody; race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain
1993 – Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
Historical Events for 13th February 2020
1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy
1925 – US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
1929 – Vladimir Mayakofsky’s “Klop” premieres in Moscow
1932 – Finland goes 1-2 in the 50k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Veli Saarinen wins gold ahead of team mate Väinö Liikkanen
1965 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1969 – Mary Hopkin’s Postcard album on Apple is released
1988 – Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
2000 – The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
2016 – Ninth Republican presidential candidates debate held in Greenville, South Carolina
Historical Events for 12th February 2020
1528 – Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power
1855 – Michigan State University established
1920 – NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
1955 – McGuire Sisters’ “Sincerely” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks
1968 – 25th Golden Globes: “In the Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger, and Edith Evans win
1977 – Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1982 – Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, breaking NHL record
2002 – US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States’ nuclear waste repository
2016 – Britain’s Ordnance Survey, using NASA data posts map of Mars on Flickr
2018 – Oxfam deputy director resigns over charity’s failure to deal with sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti and Chad
Historical Events for 11th February 2020
1543 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and English King Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1575 – King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1935 – 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
1963 – Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1969 – Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1973 – 1st one-day international for Pakistan and NZ
1985 – Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
1991 – UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in The Hague, Netherlands
1994 – Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
Historical Events for 10th February 2020
1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian Mutiny
1883 – Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kills 71
1923 – Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1934 – 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1974 – Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women’s marathon (2:55:17)
1977 – “Party with Comden and Green” opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
1978 – Frank C. Carlucci succeeds John F. Blake as deputy director of CIA
1980 – Ianford Wilsons “Talley’s Folly” premieres in NYC
2019 – The eight centrally owned and operated team Alliance of American Football gets underway; Orlando Apollos beat Atlanta Legends, 40-6 at Spectrum Stadium, Orlando, FL
Historical Events for 9th February 2020
1861 – Tennessee votes against secession (US Civil War)
1885 – 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 – US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1895 – Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1909 – 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1922 – Italian government of Bonomi falls
1943 – National League of Baseball seeks a buyer for the Philadelphia Phillies as owner Gerry Nugent falls in arrears
1963 – 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7″)
1968 – A rare 3-way tie for silver in the women’s 500m speed skating at the Grenoble Winter Olympics; Soviet Lyudmila Titova wins from American trio of Jenny Fish, Mary Meyers and Dianne Holum
1974 – “The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion)” by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
Historical Events for 8th February 2020
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot
1936 – Pandit Jawaharlal suceeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1958 – Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1962 – KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1984 – Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1989 – American jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2005 – Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a “new era of peace”
2009 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 30-21; MVP: Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals, WR
2017 – US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
Historical Events for 7th February 2020
1889 – Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1945 – Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1959 – Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
1970 – “Hollywood Palace” last airs on ABC TV
1970 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1982 – Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1989 – 40th NHL All-Star Game, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-5; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings, C
1990 – USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1991 – The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
2018 – DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK’s oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes
Historical Events for 6th February 2020
337 – St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1862 – Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1882 – The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
1900 – The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1932 – Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1943 – 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1962 – Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 – France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1976 – George Harrison releases “This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying)”
1986 – NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals